Have A Couple of "Important" Things Going On

I work on my startup nearly constantly. I’ve found over the past week that adding NaNoWriMo into the mix has been a healthy way to re-diversify my interests and maximize the odds of making overall progress towards personal fulfillment. When I’m procrastinating on coding, I work on my novel. And vice versa.

From personal experience, this only works for small numbers of activities. If you’ve got a ridiculous number of “important” activities on your plate, the procrastination temptation is more likely to lead you to do something of trivial importance.